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>Introduction</TITLE
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>3. Introduction</H1
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>The X server allows users to configure their video
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subsystem and thus encourages best use of existing hardware. This
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document is intended to help you learn how to generate your own timing
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numbers to make optimum use of your video card and monitor.</P
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>We'll present a method for getting something that works, and
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then show you how you can experiment starting from that base to
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develop settings that optimize for your taste.</P
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>If you already have a mode that almost works (in particular, if
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one of predefined VESA modes gives you a stable display but one that's
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displaced right or left, or too small, or too large) you can go
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straight to the section on <A
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HREF="fixes.html"
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>Fixing Problems with
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the Image</A
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>. This will enlighten you on ways to tweak the timing
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numbers to achieve particular effects.</P
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>Don't assume that you need to get all the way into mode tuning
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just because your X comes up with a scrambled display first time after
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installation; it may be that most of the factory mode lines are OK and
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you just happened to default to one that doesn't fit your
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hardware. Instead, cycle through all your installed modes with
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<SPAN
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CLASS="keysym"
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>CTRL-ALT-KP+</SPAN
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>. If some of the modes look OK, try
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commenting out all but a 640x480 and check that that mode works. If it
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does then uncomment a couple of other modes, e.g. an 800x600 and a
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1024x768 at a frequency that your monitor should be able to
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handle.</P
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